Non existent cruel allah permits first cousin marriages in the
quran and this lead to a lot of male mental retardation. Maybe
Islamists will now be convinced by new scientific evidence

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"We didn't want to start out by saying that genes had to look a
certain way," says Pandey. "So our only initial assumption was that if
a genetic region is important and codes for a protein, the sequence
will be conserved at the protein level. Thus, even if the genetic
sequence is different here and there, the protein sequence could still
be the same."

Essentially, the researchers took advantage of the redundancy inherent
in the genetic code. DNA's four building blocks -- A, T, C and G --
act as instructions for proteins in select three-block sets. These
three-block sets each "code" for just one of the 20 possible protein
building blocks, or amino acids, but some of the sets code for the
same amino acid. For example, the DNA sequences TTGAGGAGC and
CTACGATCA are quite different, but both specify the same three amino
acids -- leucine, arginine and serine, in that order.

"Instead of telling the computer what to look for, we let nature tell
the computer what was important," says Pandey. "When you align the
protein-encoding instructions of the human and mouse, the genes jump
out at you."

In the regions that were the same between species, the scientists
found 43 new "gene structures" that encode proteins. Some of the newly
identified genes sit in regions long tied to X-linked mental
retardation syndromes, which appear only in boys, or other disorders.
Quite remarkably, Pandey says, almost half of the new genes don't look
like any previously known genes, nor do they look like each other.